Given its claw back from an inferior position just a few short years ago and the steadily rising sales of its vehicles virtually across the board, Ford Motor Co. wants to be associated in consumers’ minds with quality and innovation. Not truck accidents. “Ford has been polishing their image and getting it very, very…
Ohio-based Bendix Corp., a major truck-parts manufacturer, could potentially emerge as the primary beneficiary of a mandated standard on rollover- stability technology to prevent truck accidents expected to be announced after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) finishes research studies. The NHTSA has long been focused on large trucks and their propensity to…
In a May 19 blog post, we informed readers that the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”) was pushing employers with drivers of large commercial vehicles to install on-board devices that automatically record how much time a driver spends behind the wheel. The agency and other safety groups across the country are greatly concerned that…
Concerned with reducing the number and severity of commercial truck accidents, and seeking to more closely regulate truckers generally, Congress enacted the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 to deregulate the trucking industry. Pursuant to new authority under that law, the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) began compiling safety records for carriers and individual drivers, as…
A tragic truck accident that occurred in 2009 on an interstate highway in Oklahoma is serving as a strong catalyst to promote frank and wide-ranging discussions among safety advocates and regulators and the truck industry regarding industry rules and recent recommendations. That accident was truly horrific, with 10 people dying after an overly fatigued…
According to industry insiders, Ford Motor Company begrudgingly recalled 140,000-plus pickup trucks from its profitable F-Series line this past February after prodding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to do so. The recall was in response to a number of consumer complaints received by the NHTSA concerning defective air bags in the…
A southwestern Ohio community was visited twice on consecutive days earlier this week by large truck accidents that had serious consequences. A crash involving a semi tractor-trailer on Interstate 75, near Middletown — a city of about 50,000 people situated in Warren and Butler counties — occurred at about 9 a.m. this past Tuesday,…
A 56-year-old Ohio man died from injuries sustained when his semi truck overturned on early Thursday morning. According to sheriff’s deputies, the truck driver was traveling on I-75 around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday when his tractor-trailer veered off the roadway, went over a ravine and flipped on its side. When first responders appeared on…
Most highways have that one particular spot of the road that is more susceptible to accidents. It doesn’t matter how well-known the tight curve or treacherous stretch is, it still manages to be a frequent crash site. That particular stretch of Ohio 550 – outside Marietta, Ohio, near Goodfellows Park Lake – once again…
According to local news reports, the Ohio Highway Patrol was called to the scene of a fatal truck accident in Woodville around 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning near U.S. 20 near Lime Road. Ohio Highway Patrol detail that the fatal truck accident involved a pickup truck and a semi truck. Local reports expressed that…